How to Choose Personalized Art for Your Home
Instead of agonizing over the type and value of art you can purchase from strangers, featuring strangers and unknown scenes, you should consider having pictures of your favorite places and people printed from photographs.
There are several services you can use to have your photos enlarged into large photos or applied to canvas. My favorite is Canvas on Demand because they can remove unwanted backgrounds and/ or people. They also touch up, restore, and add an oil paint quality to your artwork if you wish.
To have your photograph printed on a poster or canvas, you can mail your photograph to the photo printer, or you can send a JPEG file to your photo art printer, according to the printer’s instructions. Along with the photo and payment information, you can give editing instructions.
You can have your new artwork printed in any size from 4X6 inches to 36 X 48 inches. Your art can be photorealistic, have brushstrokes, be black and white, or sepia. You can have a black and white photo colorized, create a photo collage, replace the background of a picture, or have your photo retouched, all for reasonable fees. They can also be framed, if you wish.
When ordering custom artwork from photographs for your walls, choose sizes in proportion to the walls. If you have 20-foot ceilings, choose larger canvases. If you have 8 or 9 foot, ceilings choose smaller sizes. You can make a family grouping by arranging canvas photos of your family members on one wall, or order one canvas with a collage of your family members.
Remember, you do not need to use photographs of people to create personalized wall art. You can use photographs of your pets, or favorite people. You can make a collage of a vacation, or blow up a picture of yourself in front of a major landmark. Whatever photos you choose to add art to your walls, make sure it is meaningful to you. This way, it will be well worth the cost.
